Smugglers are reportedly using social media to lure potential victims to Libya, where they face torture and slavery. The UN's migration agency has urged the likes of Facebook to monitor its content and protect migrants.
Migrants who arrive in Spain from Africa often face detention in a Center for the Internment of Foreigners (CIE), where their fundamental human rights are not always respected. Santiago Saez reports from Madrid.
A photo essay documents the return of deported refugees from Iran to Afghanistan. A man from Guinea shares his testimony of being sold off into slavery in Libya and a Rome clinic reports that 80 percent of its migrant patients had s1
Some 80 percent of migrants assisted in 2017 by the MEDU mobile clinic in Rome say that they suffered torture, abuse, serious deprivation, sexual violence or enslavement. Most of the mistreatment happened in Libya.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with the head of Libya's internationally recognized government, Fayez al-Sarraj. She said "there is still a lot to do" to improve migrant conditions in the country.